flashgnash

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[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago (14 children)

You can't prove that there isn't one somewhere

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago

Not even letting your bop cook?

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

Mint/elementary are good if on windows 10/Mac respectively

What I would say is what is your reason for converting people, because you're going to end up as permanent tech support this way when they'd have probably been fine with a Mac or something

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Good old I can't believe it's not macos

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 19 points 5 months ago

Mint is one of the best bets for beginners, it's very similar to windows 10 UI wise by default and generally very user friendly

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Don't forget uWuntu

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I was on 50 max for a while, it's perfectly fine for pretty much everything but big downloads will take longer

(I was gaming online on voice chat at the same time my family was streaming and there wasn't any issue)

I have just upgraded to 500mb for about £35 a month though your pricing is rough

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Ah gotcha, difficult to tell over text and a lot of people here would genuinely respond like that unprovoked

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Matter replicators you would hope would bring about post scarcity and the kind of society you see in Star Trek, I have my doubts one would ever be developed without greed as a motivation though

Short of changing human nature I don't think even with all tthat tech we'd end up being a fair society, people would hoard energy, replicator tech, political power etc (unless it's so simple people could build them themselves I suppose)

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

How do you see something like that and your first thought is to respond with hostility

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago (10 children)

I would make the argument that even under perfectly executed communism space travel is unlikely to end up being the focus

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Lshw, lsusb, etc and grep do that

 

Just googled to see if there was an activitypub git host yet and came across this claiming gitlab are working on it at the moment and that it's available as an experimental feature

Seems odd to me that people aren't talking about this more here, has anyone tried it and if so is it any good?

 

Seeing as Yuzu has been nintendo'd recently, what do people think will happen to ryujinx? Can Nintendo get them on the same grounds as Yuzu or would they need to come up with a new case against them?

 

My phone's just bitten the dust and now I need to look for a new one again.

Thought I'd test the waters and see what kinds of phones people on here are using nowadays and what for, what features set them apart if any etc

Bonus points if anyone's managed to get mainline linux running on them either via KVM or bare metal

Edit: Thanks for everyone who talked about their choices of phone, I am now writing this on a fairphone 4 and am quite happy with it so far.

 

Does anyone know of a mod that, given the seed for example, could locally generate chunks so that they can be displayed before the server generates them?

IE if multiple people are exploring and the server's struggling to keep up, it would be awesome if the client could generate them locally and fill in the gaps locally until the server gets around to generating them proper

(Kinda like how I imagine distant horizons does it)

 

I'm hearing a lot about websites like netflix and YouTube crippling their performance in some way if you're using firefox instead of chrome/a smart TV

Is it likely to cause me problems if I just globally change my useragent to chrome instead of firefox?

Alternatively, is there an extension that automatically bypasses all of these things that people are aware of (pretends to be a smart TV for netflix, chrome for YouTube, etc automatically)

If there's not an extension, what would be involved in making one? Obviously user agent changes dependant on URL but I'm not sure what other metrics these websites might be able to use to figure out what you're using

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by flashgnash@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

I am potentially going to be able to put Linux on my work PC soon, have been using it on my personal PC and laptop quite happily with hyprland ontop of NixOS

Thinking of using NixOS for my work machine as well, however I don't want to use hyprland or even Wayland as I need this machine to be stable and reliable (Nvidia GPU)

Is I3 still the best option for this or are there better alternatives? (leaning towards I3 ontop of KDE)

I'm also somewhat tempted to just go GNOME with the forge extension as it seems the most reliable, though the tiling on that extension is far from perfect

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by flashgnash@lemm.ee to c/dnd@lemmy.world
 

Whenever I hear about D&D more often than not it seems like people go to great lengths to stay in character and roleplay

This is great and makes for some very interesting stories but I tend to find myself more interested in just going on an adventure with a group of friends, solve a few puzzles win a few fights, complete a few quests etc

I'm also a big fan of character optimisation and mechanics but get the feeling that can be frowned upon by much of the community

Difficult to describe what I mean here but as an example in baldur's gate I barely roleplay at all, my character has no personality except for the fact they make the decisions I would make, but I find that more fun, not having to worry about what my character would do and just making the decision I want to make

I realise not having a fleshed out character in D&D detracts from the immersiveness of the story because the DM can't weave your character into the story but at least at the moment that doesn't sound too bad to me.

Just wondering if there are people out there who run lighter roleplay campaigns

 

What's everyone's thoughts on how baldur's gate handles areas you're not allowed to short rest?

I get that it adds to the challenge to have to conserve resources but up until moonrise towers the game has let us long rest when and where we please

My friend and I have been burning through spell slots like nobody's business because when we start to run low on health and short rests we just throw everything we have at finishing a fight thinking we're going to long rest afterwards, only to be realise we can't and now have to fight through the remaining areas with no spell slots

Would be nice if the game warned you when you were entering an area you wouldn't be able to long rest so we'd know to be a bit more conservative with resource usage and I feel like this is going to be a pattern going forward

Tl;Dr don't mind not being able to long rest in certain areas but would be nice to have a heads up

 

Obviously nobody in their right mind is using BSD for gaming but I do wonder how it would show up

I heard there was a bsd port of steam at some point and some people got the Linux build working on it. I have to assume the Linux build would probably report as Linux unless it has some mechanism to determine operating system besides it being hard coded

Having 1% of my playtime be on BSD seems like a pretty good meme to me

 

Work have started trying out signal for messaging, but I'd rather not have all my personal contacts and conversations on a machine I don't own

Is there any way I could white/black list certain contacts from one device, or is the only way to manage two separate accounts? (If so, is there an easy/built in way to do that on windows/nixos)

 

Screenshot is taken from the worst premade ever video WPE absolutely butchering the English language 2023 edition

The game looks pretty cool but I don't recognise it and can't seem to find it with image search, does anyone recognise it?

 

I have a theory that it should have a very different "personality" (probably more like writing style) depending on language because it's an entirely different set of training data

In English chatGPT is rather academic and has a recognisable style of writing, if you've used it a bit you can usually get hints something was written by it just by reading it.

Does it speak in a similar tone, with similar mannerisms in other languages? (where possible, obviously some things don't translate)

I don't know a second language well enough to have natural conversation so I'm unable to test this myself, and may have worded things awkwardly from a lack of understanding

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